Chapter 697 A Glimpse of Blood Harbor
Beatrice lay in the hearth, her eyes slightly closed, in a rare sleep.
Extraordinary people generally do not dream. Dreams are always associated with secrecy and loss. People who are addicted to dreams are often not far from losing control.
But this time she dreamed a lot.
The laughter of childhood, the flowers outside the fence, the birds flying outside the window, Beatrice giggled and was very happy.
Turning around, Hela, with her face covered with a black veil, held the triple crown in both hands, and the dark crowd behind her was looking at her.
Blood, roars, gradually dilating pupils, broken stained glass, thick snow, countless fragmented images twisted into a distorted giant beast, roaring and chasing after her.
Beatrice ran for her life, holding up her long skirt. There was a sea of fire in front of her, but she jumped without hesitation and jumped into the cursing steam engine.
He turned around and closed the furnace door, shutting out the noise and quarreling.
Beatrice let out a long sigh and sat down on the hearth with her legs hugged.
Perhaps she had been tortured by fate for too long, so even this cold and hard steel would feel warm.
When I was little, I always wanted to grow up, to see the world, to play in the stream, and to be a bird flying in the sky.
Now I just want to lock myself in thick steel and never come out again.
It is warm and safe in the steel. No one forces me to wear the crown, and no one blames or scolds me.
I really want to sleep like this forever.
Bang bang bang!
There was a knock on the door, and Beatrice's sweet dream was interrupted for a moment.
Bang bang bang!!
Her beautiful eyebrows frowned, her eyelids wanted to open, but her eyes refused.
Bang bang bang!
"Open the door, Beatrice! Stop sleeping and open the door!"
Beatrice opened her eyes angrily and pushed open the oven door. "What are you arguing about? The oven door isn't locked from the inside! Why don't you just open it?"
Zoe outside scratched her head awkwardly: "Uh, I wanted to open it, but the steam engine disagreed. It said this is your home and I need your permission."
Beatrice finally fell asleep and was about to get angry again, but when she saw the thick dark circles under Zoe's eyes, she felt calmer. "Such dark circles. What's going on? Didn't you sleep well either?"
When Zoe mentioned this, she puffed out her chest with pride. She always felt that it was her call in the link that saved Beatrice. Although she couldn't say it out loud, she felt happy in her heart when she thought about doing a good thing.
Well, thankfully she had no way of saying it.
"This... there are deep reasons. Let's not talk about that. I came here to wake you up. Look—"
She turned sideways. The airship's cabin wasn't very large, and there was a porthole next to Beatrice's steam engine.
Beatrice looked down from the porthole.
"We've arrived at Blood Harbor!"
It was dark outside the porthole. Beatrice thought it was a dark cloud, but when she looked carefully, she found it was a cloud of smoke. As the propeller driven by the steam engine rolled, the smoke dissipated, and the whole city came into Beatrice's sight.
The first thing was a tall chimney, the smoke and dust coming out of it had just been left behind by the airship.
The chimney was not too far from the airship, and Beatrice suddenly thought she was not far from the ground.
But the next moment, she saw a dense forest of steel.
The long and flat buildings are factories, one connected to another, filling the entire industrial park, like exquisite desserts.
In the snack room, there were a lot of small ants running around. Beatrice thought they were pedestrians, but when she looked closely, she found that they were freight vehicles.
The railway tracks are like blood vessels, dividing the industrial area into neat small grids, pumping raw materials and pollution into them like blood, making the entire city full of vitality.
Beatrice's eyes gradually widened.
She rubbed her eyes in disbelief and looked away.
Tall buildings stand on the earth like giants standing up.
It's not that Beatrice had never seen tall buildings before. The Upper Rhine was even built on top of a tall building. Occasionally, when she looked down from the window, she could only see the church spires, one after another.
But those churches are different from the tall buildings in front of us.
The churches on the Upper Rhine are like exquisite sculptures inlaid with jewels.
It is a sacred place that can only be viewed from afar and not desecrated. The hymns that sound all day long cannot cover up its deadness.
The tall buildings below are like bamboo shoots breaking through the soil after the rain, full of vitality.
People were busily walking through it, occasionally looking up at the sky and waving to the airship with a smile.
Beatrice felt an inexplicable tremor in her heart. She quickly looked away, not daring to look any longer, as if she would be burned by the vibrant scene. She looked towards the harbor in the distance.
The dock area of Blood Harbor has been completely reshaped, and the once natural deep-water port now has many more artificial traces.
The square berth area does not look like a work of nature. The lead-gray cement is the cornerstone of the port, supporting the city.
Steam engines are singing on the gantry cranes, and huge cargo ships look like floating mountains from the airship.
Next to the seaport is the airport, and the sky is not far away from the Blood Harbor. The navigator waved the flag in his hand and guided the airship to dock.
Busy and crowded, but with its own order.
At the station next to it, railroad tracks are laid side by side. If the railway network is compared to blood vessels, then this is the heart of the entire city, the largest artery. Countless trains depart from here, pumping in ore and fuel, and pumping out steel and production capacity.
The entire Blood Harbor is like a giant beast lying on the seashore. Every swallow and spit out by it is a miracle that mortals can hardly imagine.
Looking at everything below, you don’t need any industrial foundation, and you don’t need others to introduce it. Just by seeing these, you can naturally feel its greatness.
Beatrice felt that the blood in her body was half frozen and half burning, and the mixture was a throbbing that she could not suppress.
"Blood Harbor. Blood Harbor." She muttered to herself.
"It's spectacular, isn't it." Gaia walked over, looked down, and the corners of her mouth rose.
"I grew up in Blood Harbor. Perhaps I should be considered a Blood Harbor native, but I followed my father to Castel when I was very young. Do you know why?"
Beatrice frowned and thought for a while, then shook her head.
"It's very dangerous in the sea, and there's also the Pirate Court."
"Yes, it was dangerous, but there was nothing we could do." Gaia's eyes were filled with nostalgia. "I went there to escape."
"Escape?"
"Yes, there was a famine in Blood Harbor. People had nothing to eat and either starved to death or tried their luck elsewhere. My father had a small boat at the time, so he took us to Castel. Castel was still a deserted island then, but we survived by relying on the sweet fruits in the trees and the fish in the sea."
(End of this chapter)
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